2021

Impressive orchestration, jazz and classical come together really well, individual sitar pieces are the masterstrokes. -Suanshu

Some lovely fusion there! -Arun

Sukoon! -Meera

A lot going on, but it works beautifully! And Puryaban's sitar chords weaves a unique feel. -Sumi

Wonderful fusion of genres. -Sukanya

All great elements in the song individually - Sitar, Jazz, vocal (Gayatri Asokan and Thana Alexa). Just a lot going on. Less would have been more. -Vaishali

The song serves as a good example of how eastern and western music should be blended with each other. -Anish

Nice blend of varied instruments. -Aman

Gazal - nice sitar/tabla/vocals, not quite feeling the connection to the non-Indian vocals. -Sanjeev

Little bit of this, little bit of that. -Nishant

Great effort, but it seemed disjointed to me. The sum of (great) parts did not quite add up to make a great whole. The Whats-App-level shayari didn't help either. -Vishal

It felt like a mishmash off too many musical influences. Gayathri Asokan is a good singer. The couplets of the Ghazal find a very good vehicle in her voice. The basic tune and the orchestration are good too, but there was no need for the non-Indian vocal interjections in my view. It would have been fine to play those parts on a saxophone or such, without the distracting vocals. -UVR